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Walt Stahura swung and missed on the first pitch, and then leveled a drive just over the left field fence, 325 feet away. Terrier outfielder Len Dempsey jumped over the low picket fence, but couldn't get the blast...
Black Cloud. The paradox of the whole affair was that the storm, despite its beginnings, had turned into a phenomenon so real that it had fooled many a Republican. G.O.P. Chairman Len Hall was one of the first to see it coming and tried to head it off; immediately after Ike announced his intention of running for a second term, Hall hailed Nixon as a "great American," adding, "and a great American is, in my opinion, a strong candidate...
Absentee Candidate. In 1952, rather than face another tough primary fight against the Sprague organization, Len Hall decided to run for the surrogate court in his county-a cushy job that paid $30,000 a year. Just as he was getting ready to campaign, he got a call from Candidate Dwight Eisenhower's headquarters in Manhattan. "Len," barked Sherman Adams, "you're taking the train." And so Hall rode with Ike, took care of his schedules and appointments, and acted as a jovial maitre d'hôtel aboard the campaign train. On Election Day, without ever...
...Len Hall is a study in perpetual motion. In three years he has traveled an estimated half a million miles around the U.S., consulting the party brass, greeting the voters (he has an elephantine memory for names, faces and telephone numbers), giving pep talks to sagging local organizations, and keeping the Republican machine in good working order. In Washington he has exercised his talent for lowering ceilings by consolidating the national committee's office space, whittling down the permanent staff, thus saving $300,000 a year in rents and payroll costs. He meets nearly every day with the President...
Outwardly, Len Hall seems to thrive on his hectic regimen-and there is little doubt that he relishes his work. His geniality has not rubbed off under the stress. His singing and his original songs (sample title: The Squaws on the Yukon Are Good Enough for Me) are famous in Washington. Office staffers have learned to ignore his flagrant practical jokes-like the swollen and bloody fake finger he sometimes wears. He has to fight his weight (and at 225 Ibs., the weight is winning). To the casual observer he seems to be a bald and bouncy gladhander, as carefree...